OO gauge PRR L1 steam engine pulling coal by Fred Schorr

Exquisite!

Hi Carey, I like the pictures and video. And it appears to be appropriately pulling some Schorr brass cars and caboose! Do you have any pictures of the bottom of the locomotive and tender?

Chris

Hello ..hewre is a photo of the bottom ..modified Nason Consolidation

Great pics and video!   I to have some OO gauge, but have not come up with a loop of Tru-Scale track yet to build a small layout.   AD

@artfull dodger posted:

Great pics and video!   I to have some OO gauge, but have not come up with a loop of Tru-Scale track yet to build a small layout.   AD

what is the deference in gauge between ho and 00

Here is a pic Dave, of some Lionel OO track and a piece of HO flex track. Its just a touch wider.  AD

I discovered by accident years ago that OO is actually the same gauge as On3 track. Only problem is taller rail is needed due to the deep flanges on older OO equipment. The trains will run fine but the flanges hit the spike heads on the ties.

The reason I ask , I have boxes of Shinohara ? ho track from the 1950's  its about the same as the old True Scale ho track ( ties milled into a wood road bed)  with code 126 brass rail.  but it would have to be regauged.

Hello all,

OO gauge ...3/4" ...at 4mm scale

HO Gauge ...5/8" at 3.5mm scale ...

That is in America ...

England OO is 4mm scale running on 5/8" gauge (our HO track ) ...

Lionel products ..are the ones with deep flanges ...everyone else used more or less scale flanges .

Cheers Carey

What Carey said!   I used to have some Tru-Scale OO track, but that was many many years ago.  Now I am on the hunt for a small loop of it and a couple switches.   No luck so far.  I can find plenty of high doller Lionel track, but their 2 rail is Super hard to find straight sections, is highly prone to warped roadbed(bakelite) and no switches were made.  The Flex track option is not the direction I want to take, hence looking for the Tru-Scale stuff.  AD